90 percent of Iraqis think it was better before the US invasion

The Iraq Centre for Research and Strategic Studies conducted an in-person survey of 2,000 Iraqis from Baghdad, Anbar, and Najaf in November 2006. Here are the responses to one of their questions (data from GlobalResearch.ca):

Do you feel the situation in the country is better today or better before the U.S.-led invasion?

• Better today: 5%
• Better before: 90%
• Not sure: 5%

While I haven't been able to find the original study, multiple articles (UPI, Guardian, Al Jazeera) have been written on it, each one including a different portion of the survey's findings:

• "79 percent saw a decline in the economic situation; 12 percent felt things had improved and 9 percent said there was no change." (UPI)
• "95 percent felt the security situation was worse than before." (UPI)
• "Nearly 66 per cent of respondents to the Iraqi survey thought violence would decrease if US forces were to leave." (Al Jazeera)
• "[N]early 90 per cent described the [Iraq] government's implementation of its commitments and promises as very poor." (Al Jazeera)

Oddly, Al Jazeera's report on this survey is dated December 14, but the earliest non-Al Jazeera report I've found on is dated December 29 (UPI).

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